The Open Spaces Feng Shui Blog


What Gives This Bedroom Great Feng Shui?

There are plenty of examples out there of bedrooms with “bad Feng Shui,” but what gives a bedroom good Feng Shui?
Here’s a beautiful example of the ingredients that create good bedroom Feng Shui:

This room is clearly about relaxation — a… read more »

Is Your Bed’s Headboard An Invitation to Clutter?

Are you restless at night? Do you have trouble falling asleep? Do you wake up feeling tired?
There might be too much going on in your bed’s headboard.
For the best Feng Shui, use a headboard for your bed that doesn’t attract clutter.
The headboard repre… read more »

Bedroom Feng Shui: Five Tips For A Perfect Headboard

Want to instantly improve the Feng Shui of your bedroom?
Add a headboard to your bed.
Like the Mountain it resembles, a good headboard provides you with a sense of security and support.
A good headboard also empowers you, strengthening you in the Command position a… read more »

Is A “Floating Bed” Good Feng Shui?

One of my clients has been redecorating her small studio apartment which has a long, narrow layout and a window at the end of the room.
In order to balance the room and create extra seating she’d like to “float” her bed in the center of the far end of… read more »

Footboards On Beds: Good or Bad Feng Shui?

It’s a given that headboards on beds are good Feng Shui, but Heather is curious:
Do  footboards on beds affect the Feng Shui of the bedroom?
Feng Shui-wise, here are two sides to the footboard coin.

On the downside, footboards can make you feel as though you&… read more »

Bedroom Feng Shui: Changing Positions In Bed

Kristin asks, “Sometimes I must flip my position in bed to fall asleep, putting my head where feet usually go. Is this Feng Shui-related?”
The Chi energy that’s contained within each of us, and each of our spaces, is changing all the time. It sou… read more »

Feng Shui Bedroom Makeover Part 5: A Good Headboard?

Linda’s been making great strides with her bedroom. One thing that’s definitely missing, though, is a headboard for her bed.
In a bedroom with good Feng Shui, a headboard provides an important “mountain” of strength & protection… read more »

Bad Feng Shui in the Bedroom: Headboards Gone Wrong

Fun with egregiously bad bedroom Feng Shui!
First up, a truly terrible headboard:
This headboard does not provide you with the “safe haven” you need to sleep well at night. Instead it allows Chi energy to flow right through the headboard and out the wi… read more »

King-Sized Beds: Bad Feng Shui in the Bedroom

Doesn’t this bed look just delicious?
Unfortunately from a Feng Shui perspective there is something very wrong with this bed: the people who share it are symbolically divided from one another.
While the mattress is King-sized, the headboard and box sprin… read more »